Golden Sunshine...

Hello Crafters..

Welcome to my page today…I am here with my DT project for Anything But A Card Challenge where the theme is “FOOLS GOLD”…so go ahead and create anything but a card please!

I personally do not like gold but do like it if it is aged or dull ! But when you say Gold, I can only think of yellow and so my project today has a yellow base with different hues and textures of gold!

Ready for the feast???

It’s bright and sunny here with new life to nature…I see new leaves, new flowers and new colors in my garden too! I have altered a picture frame this time…A lovely wooden frame that was gifted to me on my birthday by a dear friend who knew I love to alter ! And that is what I did…

Am going to be celebrating my 20^th wedding anniversary soon and wanted to make something for that and also remember I said, I am doing up my house too???

I ideally wanted to make something that would light up a corner shelf and have use some bright colors but Distressed…yes, How can I not do that???

I covered the wooden frame with gesso and then sponged in lime yellow acrylic color. Time to distress…out came the sand paper and I rubbed a bit to revel the wood benath and then dry sponged some gesso in places to give a distressed and white washed look too.

I also rubbed in a bit of dull gold Inka gold randomly in the edges to give a vintage “celebration” look !!

The focal point was going to be not the “found relatives” but some real ones, lol! I took a sepia print out of “us” and decided to work a floral theme around us!

I colored some Rhine stones with gold alcohol ink and stuck them randomly. A bunch of floral decoration on the left side with a big loopy bow and flower cluster on the top definitely catches your attention but hey, did you see that I have stamped the sentiments on acetate!

This is my first acetate stamping and it took me two tries to get it right and I liked the subtle, transparent and different look of the sentiments popping out!

There's one tucked casually behind the bow strands and has the gold alcohol dripping from all the sides.

The other one is a fist tail banner and for this I dabbed some purple and gold alcohol ink on the reverse for some splash of color! Both sentiments are from KaiserCraft.I drilled some holes on the inside shadow portion of the frame to suspend a few metal chains with glass beads to look like a half curtain!

The loopy bow has the trinket pin which says “Fragile”…perfect for this project and I made a chunky charm with some aged gold chain and glass beads.I aged the ornate book corners too to give a dull gold look.

 However, I kept the butterfly  and the flowers in bright colors because they add life to this project!

The Monarch butterfly is an acetate die cut using Frantic Stamper Precision die. I first sponged some alcohol ink in gold and then applied some grunge paste with metallic gold color mixed in it and then sprinkled some coarse gold glitter too! That’s a LOT OF GOLD in one little butterfly but I just loved how it looked after drying! I think it steals the show here…

The flowers are all using  different die fro Heart felt creations Arianna blooms, CLD sunflower and CLD sastha daisy die. They have all been colored with distress inks. The foliage is also die cuts from Tattered lace ferns die and CLD Tropical leaves.

That’s the end of the alteration and I think I have never used thus many forms of Gold in any project and I am glad this challenge made me discover the different possibilities.

 So come on, take out all that gold and play along this month. Hope to see you projects soon there!

I hope I did justice to the plain  frame that my friend gave! I am getting a vintage white display cabinet made for my living room ...a new home for my latest creation!

Thank you so much for taking the time to be here and taking part in my anniversary celebrations.

I would love to have my celebrations frame enter the following challenges.

A Vintage Journey – Thru the glass door( acetate, picture frame and glass beads)

Brown SugarChallenge – Distress( I just love that word, lol)

Craft StamperChallenge – Take a technique- color

Red RubberInspirations Challenge – Spring Flowers

Cherry Lynn Designs Challenge – Pretty in purple

Art With Heart - Spring Break

Frilly ‘n’ FunkieChallenge – Spring time die cuts

Moo Mania Challenge– feeling of spring

Crafty  Sentiments- lots of flowers

The Corrosive Challenge Blog- Floral fantasy 

Until my next creative Journey,

Happy Crafting and Re cycling.

Cheers.

Colors of India-GD project for TIOT

Hello crafters..

A warm welcome to all of you and a Big Thanks to my new followers.…am here today with my Guest Design project for Try It on Tuesday where the theme for this fortnight is “Pearls for Girls”…How exciting!

I was really excited when I was asked to guest design for TIOT, such a talented team out there and its honor to be featured amongst them for this challenge. Thanks TIOT team for this opportunity.

Now, coming to the challenge…Pearls look amazing in most of the projects and probably the simplest to accommodate as an embellishment in any project. I have tried to “show off” my pearls in a different way!

This time around, I have an altered project where I have up cycled a card board box which once housed a thermal flask. In the normal course, the packaging box would have found it’s way to the bin but having been bit by the re cycle bug, I decided to give it a new lease of life thru this challenge!

I needed a box to keep my collection of bangles and bracelets and so decided to make one out this!

Firstly, I made it operational horizontally against its normal position and secured it well by stapling all the edges. I then dished out this lovely pattern paper from Temple Tree. It’s a handmade paper, almost like fabric and has lovely paisley patterns all over it.

Have a look at the paper…so vibrant, so colorful, so ethnic and traditional, so INDIA…yes, the colors are inspired from the Indian flag this time.

I had a different plan for the lid! Once the box and the sided were done with the paisley paper, I inked the edges with peeled paint DI for dimension.

For the lid, I fist adhered rushed tissue paper with gel medium and created texture with TH burlap stencil. Once this was dry, I applied green acrylic paint and before it dried, I wiped off with a wet tissue. This removes some of the paint from the top layer to reveal the white beneath…distressed look with good old acrylics!

I then rubbed in Inka gold on the raised portions of the texture. It complements the paisley’s so well, you ought to see it live…

Now comes the time to show off my pearls. I made this brooch button for the closure with some full pearls and also the danglers from it with more tiny pearls. Fixed the brooch to the box with a brad and used elastic for the closure. My box looks pretty dressed up, lol!

For the embellishment on the top, I dint want too many colors,. I made lovely layered blooms using Heartfelt creations Arianna blooms and have a closer look at them…do they feel waxy???

 Yes, I dipped them all in a pot of bees wax and this time, I put a drop of musk oil to the wax…so you can imagine the fragrance from the flowers! I really hope you can smell themmm….oooooooooo

A lovely sentiment from Inkadinkado and some more pearls to line the box and the outside of the box is ready!

For the inside, I chose a complementing paper in green from Recollections pack and covered it,. I slid a empty kitchen roll to fit the width of the box …my bangles look pretty there, don’t they?

So, is that it…NO…you got to see the back ! What do you think would possible be there???

Ummmm..guess…

I fixed a foam panel in a matching tone to” show off “a few of my “special “ earrings too…now isn’t that a bonus!

Do you see the lovely gold bottle cap feet of my beautiful bangle box??? It proudly stands on my dressing table with all goodies inside and outside, lol!

I hope this inspires you to play along at TIOT and do let me know if you liked my “colors of India” box.

I would like to enter the following challenges with this house of bangles!
Re Cycle Re purpose Re Invent Challenge Blog- AG but re cycle
Glitter and Sparkle Challenge - AG
Eclectic Ellapu - AG
Our Creative Corner- Junk in your Trunk (old carboard box, bottle caps, empty kitchen roll)
Country View Challenge - AG
Frosted Designs - Handmade flowers and re cycled materials ( cardboard box, bottle caps, kitchen roll)
BGC- Mixed media

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and Re cycling.

Cheers.